ghterve

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[–] ghterve 5 points 2 days ago

I kinda suspect that shared joy might repeat if a cancer vaccine was revealed.

We didn't collectively suffer long enough from COVID for its vaccine to be universally embraced...

[–] ghterve 1 points 3 weeks ago

They hate education and the educated.

[–] ghterve 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ignoring that, the placement of the burners makes no sense.

[–] ghterve 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think you're missing that it would be stuff that hasn't sold yet

[–] ghterve 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

You had me until that last group.

If you opt out of participating, you deserve whatever happens without you.

We're in this mess arguably because of all the people who chose not to participate.

[–] ghterve 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Then why do you claim that liberal means blindly voting D no matter what? Your statements don't seem consistent.

[–] ghterve 1 points 1 month ago

But you're negatively judging Harris voters in swing states. To me that's like negatively judging people faced with the trolley problem who chose to pull the lever because death still resulted, and then suggesting the solution instead is to go advocate against trolleys and people who tie people to tracks, when in reality that's the same as not pulling the lever.

[–] ghterve 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

They may have preferred the outcome where she won but that was never going to happen no matter how you voted. The possibility that your vote was the difference between Trump and Harris, on the other hand, was within the realm of possibility.

We need ranked choice voting. But at the moment we don't have it.

[–] ghterve 1 points 1 month ago

It would have been amazing if you had an option of a third outcome, but the reality is you didn't. Life is full of situations where you have to pick between things that are both distasteful. But the trolley problem illustrates that opting out to avoid it is not an option at much as you try to convince yourself that it is.

[–] ghterve 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If you look at the dictionary definition, it means pretty much exactly the opposite of what you said. Also, the D party is not highly aligned with the definition of liberal, so you're also wrong about it meaning always voting blue.

[–] ghterve 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

You could have voted for your next door neighbor too and told yourself you were voting against genocide, but you'd be wrong then too.

You didn't support the third party's chances of winning because there was no way that was going to ever happen in this election. Elections aren't about voting for candidates as much as they are voting for outcomes.

The word liberal is not the insult you think it is.

[–] ghterve 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

So as they are being killed, they can think "well, zarkanian didn't vote for the choice that might have improved my chances of not being killed, but at least it was a principled wrong choice"

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